Physician Recruiting Tips, Compensation and Industry Trends

With vast resources and years of physician recruiting experience, Merritt Hawkins is a leading source of original industry data that is used nationally as a benchmark in areas such as physician compensation, physician supply and demand, and physician needs assessment. In addition, our executives are consistently published and quoted on a wide range of healthcare staffing topics.

Along with reporting our sought-after data, we offer a wide range of educational seminars on effective physician recruiting. These seminars are content focused and offer profound insight into current healthcare staffing issues and challenges, such as the ongoing physician shortage. Devoid of promotional messages and being truly educational in purpose, Merritt Hawkins seminars offer practical solutions to some of the most pressing staffing challenges facing healthcare facilities today.

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Presentation Topics

If your healthcare organization would be interested in hosting a seminar conducted by Merritt Hawkins, please consider some of the topics we currently are addressing:

Will the Last Physician in America Please Turn Off the Lights?

This is the year that baby boomers, the 75-million strong group born in the U.S. between 1946 and 1964, start turning 60. Who will provide care for these and other members of a growing population with a seemingly endless appetite for medical services? This presentation takes a sobering look at what is shaping up as a profound challenge to the nation’s healthcare system – a pervasive and growing physician shortage. The program identifies key reasons for the shortage and reviews how it’s affecting all stages of healthcare delivery. Based on a best selling book by executives at Merritt Hawkins, this program offers a provocative and engaging examination of one of the most critical challenges facing the healthcare system today.

The Physician Recruiting “Iceberg”: A Step-by-Step Guide to Recruiting and Retaining Doctors

Just like an iceberg, there’s more to physician recruiting than meets the eye. It’s the planning and teamwork “beneath the surface,” that occurs before candidates are even contacted, that leads to successful physician recruiting. Based on Merritt Hawkins' latest “Guide to Physician Recruiting,” this presentation provides strategic and tactical guidelines needed to create an effective physician recruiting plan. The program begins with an explanation of why physician recruiting is different from other searches and includes a discussion of the elements that make up a winning physician recruiting plan.

Dr. Generation X

Physician practice patterns are changing, and so are physicians themselves. Dr. Generation X looks at both changes in physician demographics and practice styles in the context of medical staff planning. How do younger physicians impact overall FTEs? What are the causes of conflict between younger physicians and older practitioners? What do younger physicians seek in a practice, and how can they best be integrated into the medical staff? What are the best strategies for recruiting younger physicians and appealing to their specific needs? This program examines these issues, offering stimulating discussion, debate and solutions.

Physicians and Hospitals: The Quest for Common Ground

The “cold war” between physicians and hospital administrators has been simmering for years. Most recently, however, the war has escalated and the stakes moved higher as physicians and hospitals are increasingly in outright competition with one other. What can hospital administrators do to address the underlying causes of tension and misunderstanding between them and their medical staff? This program examines the relationship between physicians and hospital administrators and offers suggestions on how hospitals can foster productive and enduring relations.

Temporary Staffing as a Permanent Fixture

For years, healthcare staffing has been moving toward the temporary model. Nurses and allied health professionals are being joined increasingly by physicians working on a temporary basis. Why is temporary, locum tenens physician use increasing? What types of physicians are working as locum tenens? What kinds of medical specialties are in greatest demand? And what are the benefits, costs and returns on investments? In addition, what are the best strategies for integrating temporary nurses, physicians and allied health professionals into a strategic staff plan? This program provides answers to these questions and offers practical guidelines to healthcare administrators interested in managing what is an increasingly important source of medical manpower and expertise.

If you are interested in these topics, or if you would like us to present on some other issue, please contact Phil Miller, Vice President of Public Relations, at (800) 876-0500 or phil.miller@amnhealthcare.com.